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extensions

NOUN

enlargement, continuation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delay development expansion increase postponement

STRONG

addendum addition adjunct amplification annex appendage appendix arm augmentation branch broadening compass dilatation distension elongation extent lengthening orbit production prolongation protraction purview radius reach scope span spread stretch stretching supplement sweep widening wing

WEAK

continuing drawing out spreading out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

decrease

STRONG

base body lessening shortening subtraction

WEAK

abbreviation abridgment compression contraction curtailment reduction

Example Sentences

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After losing last season’s NFC championship game, the team quickly signed McVay and Snead — who were entering the final years of their contracts — to long-term extensions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Elizabeth Smart lit up the internet last month after posting a picture of herself in a tiny midnight-blue bikini with a full-body spray tan, blonde hair extensions and a seriously ripped physique.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

As a result of intense lobbying by the branded pharmaceutical industry, patent-term extensions were born in the U.S. in the early 1980s under what is now more commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

These results are not direct extensions of the W state experiment, but they show why better control and measurement of complex entanglement remains so important.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza—a harami like herself, as it turned out—had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini